Crime journal

By TIMES WIRES
Published March 10, 2007

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TALLAHASSEE

Court will not hear Hudson man's appeal

The Florida Supreme Court announced late Friday that it will not hear the appeal of Richard Paey, the 48-year-old Hudson man serving a 25-year drug trafficking sentence for illegally obtaining the painkillers he needs. His attorney, John Flannery, said there are only two options left: the pending clemency request before Gov. Charlie Crist, and an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

A 1985 car accident left Paey in a wheelchair with chronic pain, and he was arrested 12 years later for using fake prescriptions to buy more than 1,200 pills.

ST. PETERSBURG

Same man sought in 2 bank robberies

Police are searching for a man suspected of robbing two banks in the past week.

The man robbed a Wachovia Bank at 3131 66th St. N on Tuesday and a Bank of America at 5701 38th Ave. N on Thursday afternoon.

He had a mustache and goatee in the Wachovia robbery, but was clean-shaven for the Bank of America robbery.

ST. PETERSBURG

Police accuse man of fatal stabbing

Police have arrested a suspect in a stabbing that left one man dead on Thursday.

Malcolm D. Danford, 24, of 1310 1/2 12th Ave. S, was charged with second-degree murder stemming from an altercation with 24-year-old Frederick U. Love, police said.

Police said Love and Danford were fighting over a woman around 3:15 a.m. Thursday when Love was stabbed several times in the chest. The fight took place at a home at 3700 18th Ave. S, where Danford's girlfriend lives.

Elsewhere

SEX BATTERY CHARGE: A 30-year-old man faces a capital sexual battery charge for an incident last year involving an 11-year-old girl, according to a report from the Pasco sheriff's office.

The girl told authorities that on Oct. 31, 2006, Tam Hoia Truong tried to rape her at least once at his 5205 State Road 54 home.

Authorities withheld the girl's name and the nature of her relationship with Truong due to the nature of the charges. Truong is being held without bail.